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CodeNode in London Relaunched by Trifork as Conference Venue
CodeNode, former host of SkillsMatter, has been bought by Trifork and will re-open its doors in London.
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Yelp Varanus Helps Android Apps Monitor and Limit Network Traffic
Recently open-sourced by Yelp, Varanus is an Android library aiming to prevent apps from inadvertently consuming too much data. Besides monitoring network traffic, Varanus can also shut it off if required.
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Dissecting Bounded Contexts: Nick Tune at DDD Europe
There are many reasons for breaking up systems and making them more modular, Nick Tune noted in his keynote at the recent DDD Europe 2020 conference. We lower the cognitive load, teams can work independently, and from a business perspective we can do more granular investments. In his presentation, Tune discussed how by dissecting bounded contexts we can find more options when designing them.
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Java Flight Recorder Coming to OpenJDK 8
Java Flight Recorder, originally open sourced in Open JDK 11, is being backported into the mainline Open JDK 8 tree as it comes out of its early access release. Together with JMC 7.1, available from Azul, flight recorder profiling will become accessible to users of both Open JDK 8 and Open JDK 11.
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What Will the Next 10 Years of Continuous Delivery Look Like?
Dave Farley and Jez Humble talked at the DeliveryConf about their expectations for the next ten years of Continous Delivery (CD). For CD to succeed, the IT industry needs to focus on three performance aspects: technical, organizational, and cultural–all profoundly interrelated. DORA's report has shown that technical practices can lead the change, but they alone aren't enough.
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Swift 5.2 Brings callAsFunction, Subscript with Default Arguments, and More
The Swift programming language, originally developed by Apple and released in 2014, has just reached version 5.2. Swift 5.2 is available in the Xcode 11.4 Beta, bringing callAsFunction, subscript with default arguments, Key Path Expressions as Functions, a new diagnostic architecture, and more.
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New GitHub CLI Enables Working with Issues and PRs from the Command Line
GitHub has just beta-released GitHub CLI, an open-source tool that allows developers to work with issues and pull requests from the command line. Written in Go, GitHub CLI can be installed on Linux, macOS, and Windows.
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Blazor WebAssembly Preview - Full-Stack C# Development for Web Applications
Microsoft has released the 3.2.0 Preview 1 of Blazor WebAssembly, which adds support for a SignalR client, simplified startup and improved download size.
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How Serverless Impacts Design: Gojko Adzic at DDD Europe
Serverless architectures are becoming mainstream and can reduce both time to market and operational costs. But to benefit from them, applications must be designed around the constraints of this architecture style. At the recent DDD Europe 2020 conference, Gojko Adzic discussed his experience using serverless and how DDD and a serverless architecture will impact the design of an application.
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Event Sourcing Done Right - Experience from the Trenches: Dennis Doomen at DDD Europe
Event sourcing is just a tool; it’s not a top level architecture style and should not be used everywhere, Dennis Doomen pointed out in his presentation on the Event Sourcing day at the DDD Europe 2020 Conference in Amsterdam where he shared some of the practices he has found useful when applying event sourcing to a problem.
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Chrome 80 Released with New Cookie Policy, Module Workers and Optional Chaining
Google recently released Google Chrome 80. Chrome 80 brings important changes to its cookie policy, supports modules in workers and optional chaining in JavaScript; adds new origin trials while graduating previous origin trials; links directly to text fragments on a page with a new hashtag syntax; and more.
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WKSctl: a Tool for Kubernetes Cluster Management Using GitOps
WKSctl is an open-source project to install, bootstrap, and manage Kubernetes clusters, including add-ons, through SSH. WKSctl is a provider of the Cluster API (CAPI) using the GitOps approach. Kubernetes cluster configuration is defined in YAML, and WKSctl applies the updates after every push in Git, allowing users to have repeatable clusters on-demand.
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How to Scale a React Component - Jed Watson at React Conf 2019
Jed Watson, JavaScript architect, recently presented a talk at React Conf 2019 proposing solutions to the design and maintainability challenges posed by components, as they inevitably grow to accommodate a large series of use cases. Watson discussed the case of the react-select component, with 2.5M weekly npm downloads, and 100+ options to customize look and feel.
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HiveMQ Launches Fully-Managed, Fully-Compliant MQTT 5 Service for IoT Apps
HiveMQ Cloud aims to provide a fully-managed platform for IoT applications using MQTT to stream data out of devices. HiveMQ Clod features automatic scalabiilty and a dedicated infrastructure for each customer at a fixed hourly rate. InfoQ has spoken with HiveMQ CTO Dominik Obermaier to learn more.
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Jenkins Creator Launches ML Startup in Continuous Risk-Based Testing
Jenkins creator, Kohsuke Kawaguchi, starts Launchable, a startup using machine learning to identify risk-based tests. Testing thought leader Wayne Ariola also writes about the need for a continuous testing approach, where targeted risk-based tests help provide confidence for continuous delivery.